Spring 2021: Everything Equally Evolved
Convened by James Bridle
How do we reassert the importance of community while building solidarity with the more-than-human world? And what is vital about doing so here and now, on the edge of the Mediterranean and other, possible futures?
Movement III: February 15–March 28, 2021
Participants: Tristan Bera, Marc Delalonde, Samuel Hertz, Lito Skopeliti, Lydia Xynogala
Chef-in-residence: Christina Kotsilelou
Writer-in-residence: Ioanna Zouli
Movement IV: April 5–May 16, 2021
Participants: Dennis Dizon, Bryony Dunne, Faidon Papadakis, Kenneth Pietrobono, Miriam Simun, Ingrid Vranken, Donald Wasswa
Chef-in-residence: Carolina Doriti
Writer-in-residence: Alexander Strecker
The internet has the same carbon footprint as the airline industry. Our most powerful contemporary technology of knowledge production is itself killing the planet. We once believed that global communications networks would engender solidarity, justice, and emancipation, but they are instead seeding chaos, division, extremism, and fundamentalism. We have spent the last decade obsessed with the machines we have constructed, becoming ever more enmeshed with planetary-scale technologies to the detriment of the actual planet, and to ourselves.
In truth, our technologies are already Earth-bound. They are intimately connected with the material of the world through mines, materials, supply chains, undersea cables and cultures of extraction. At the same time, we are only just becoming aware of the more-than-human intelligences which have been with us all along, from animals, to plants, to ecosystems, capable of forms of communication and agency which are only now becoming apparent to us.
During the Infinite Rehearsals: Movement III & IV we will collectively explore some of these, and other questions: How can the tools we have at hand be reimagined to bring us down to Earth? What would it look like to take the intelligence of animals, plants, and ecosystems as seriously as we take the intelligence of smart machines? What is the relationship between distributed networks and distributed power? How do we practically engage with sensoriums other than our own?
